John Edwards Identifies Global Warming as a Priority in His Presidential Campaign: John Edwards has clearly made global warming a prominent part of his campaign at least at this early stage and has met one of the criteria (#2) that I identified. By including it as one of the issues he has chosen to highlight…

Martin Rundkvist is a very smart guy. By renaming his blog from Salto Sobrius to Aardvarchaeology, he has displaced my blog from the vaunted #1 spot on the alphabetical list of SB blogs on the front page! Go say Hello and Welcome to this great addition to the Seed blogging family!

I’ve been lazy over the holidays with my blogging, so I’ll defer, once again, to Physics Of Sex blog: Part 2 of Pumped Up and Ready for Love: Sex and Fluid Physics And once the flow gets going, you may want to make sure that your toys are ethical.

Zoo trumpets birth of rare African okapi : The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi – an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee. With a dark brown body and striped upper hind legs, the 1-month-old female looks a bit like a zebra, but…

How Zebra Finches Learn Songs: Cellular Killer Also Important To Memory: A protein known primarily for its role in killing cells also plays a part in memory formation, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report. Their work exploring how zebra finches learn songs could have implications for treatment of neurodegenerative conditions such as…